Haaretz Podcast

From Haaretz – Israel's oldest daily newspaper – a weekly podcast in English on Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World, hosted by Allison Kaplan Sommer.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/podcasts

Eine durchschnittliche Folge dieses Podcasts dauert 31m. Bisher sind 321 Folge(n) erschienen. Jede Woche gibt es eine neue Folge dieses Podcasts.

Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 6 days 22 hours 47 minutes

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episode 318: 'The more oppression there is, the more younger Arabs in Israel prefer to identify as Palestinians'


Haaretz journalist Sheren Falah Saab has been covering the unfolding disastrous humanitarian situation in Gaza for months. Even now, aside from reporting on the lives of Gazans as the war rages, she manages, from time to time, to deep dive into Arab culture, and write the kind of articles that she used to send in all the time before October 7...


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episode 317: Thomas Friedman, Aluf Benn, Noam Tibon and Amir Tibon on the failures of Oct. 7


This special episode of the Haaretz Podcast features two of the standout sessions from the recent Haaretz-UCLA conference: Israel After October 7 

First, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman sits down with Haaretz editor-in-chief Aluf Benn to discuss the “perils” and “opportunities” that lie ahead for Israel in the aftermath of the war in Gaza...


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episode 316: Tony Kushner: Israel's Gaza war 'looks a lot like ethnic cleansing to me'


Award-winning playwright and screenwriter Tony Kushner, one of the first high-profile American Jewish artists to sharply and publicly criticize Israel's treatment of Palestinians, speaks to Haaretz Podcast host Allison Kaplan Sommer about Jonathan Glazer's Oscar speech, the Gaza War, antisemitism in the U.S., and the current production of "Angels in America" in Tel Aviv...


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episode 315: Franklin Foer: 'Simplistic moralism is dividing the world into good and evil, and placing Jews on the side of evil'


In a bold and controversial cover story in The Atlantic, journalist Franklin Foer declared "The Golden Age of American Jewry is Ending." On the Haaretz Podcast, he tells host Allison Kaplan Sommer how and why he reached the sobering conclusion that "an unprecedented period of safety and prosperity for Jewish Americans" is over...


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episode 314: 'Netanyahu wants the world to accuse Israel of genocide, apartheid and ethnic cleansing'


Veteran columnist Bradley Burston opens his new book "The End of Israel: Dispatches from a Path to Catastrophe" with a stinging indictment of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who he believes is leading the country towards what could be its final chapter...


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episode 313: Former PM Olmert: 'Netanyahu’s overconfidence and arrogance led to October 7'


In a recent op-ed in Haaretz, former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-right ministers of knowingly steering Israel into an all-out war...


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episode 312: 'Israelis are rejecting Netanyahu. That doesn't mean they are embracing left-wing views'


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 February 21, 2024  47m
 
 

episode 311: 'This is not our first war, but it's the first war we've seen Israel's credit rating drop'


The decision by Moody's credit rating agency to downgrade Israel's rating and outlook last week was a shock to the country after decades of growth and a rosy outlook for the future as its technology-driven industries flourished...


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 February 14, 2024  38m
 
 

episode 310: Israel's former head of military intelligence: 'If we don't offer an alternative, we'll end up with Hamas again'


Israel's former head of military intelligence, Tamir Hayman, now the managing director of the Institute for National Security Studies, joins host Allison Kaplan Sommer on Haaretz Podcast to discuss Israel's war with Hamas and the key question: How far is Israel willing to go to bring 130-plus hostages home?

While Hayman believes that the terms of a ceasefire are negotiable on both sides, he is skeptical that Israel's current government would...


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 February 5, 2024  41m
 
 

episode 309: Rallying for democracy, calling to free hostages: Where Israel's protest movements stand


Thousands of Israelis are back on the streets, four months after the October 7 Hamas attack and the war in Gaza halted historic demonstrations against the Netanyahu government's plan to overhaul the judiciary.

Joining host Allison Kaplan Sommer on the Haaretz Podcast, reporter Linda Dayan explains how the protest movement has reemerged, and how wartime demonstrations differ...


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 January 29, 2024  36m